Characters Quotes

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There are two lives to each of us, the life of our actions, and the life of our minds and hearts. History reveals men's deeds… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
And I have to credit David Jacobs with the opportunities he gave me. He was totally into sharing the creation of characters. David put together… — William Devane
My films do have characters who have trouble escaping the world around them. — Lasse Hallstrom
Definitely they write themselves. It's an amazing experience. It's like the characters have come alive and are sitting on my shoulder talking to me, telling… — R A Salvatore
It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's… — Caroline Dhavernas
I think good radio often uses the techniques of fiction: characters, scenes, a big urgent emotional question. And as in the best fiction, tone counts… — Ira Glass
You've either got to find a way to make your continuing characters insteresting without making them maudlin or overwrought, or you've got to put more… — Jane Haddam
My characters are driven by a passionate desire for justice. They are rebellious and incorruptible. — Tahar Ben Jelloun
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient Greek word mythos… — James Hillman
I go through a whole process with the actors first, building and creating characters, then I encourage them to sort of live in that character… — Keenen Ivory Wayans
There's not a woman in the book, the plot hinges on unkindness to animals, and the black characters mostly drown by Chapter 29. — P.J. O'Rourke
I hope, when they die, cartoon characters have to answer for their sins. — Jack Handey
Benevolence is one of the distinguishing characters of man. — Mencius
But when I got to SMU and decided to take a playwriting class, I said this isn't a bad idea. IfI write characters, they could… — Beth Henley
When I first started writing plays I couldn't write good dialogue because I didn't respect how black people talked. I thought that in order to… — August Wilson
Literature doesn't have a country. Shakespeare is an African writer. His Falstaff, for example, is very African in his appetite for life, his largeness of… — Ben Okri
It's kind of ironic that the two sports with the greatest characters, boxing and horse racing, have both been on the decline. In both cases… — Dick Schaap
We started shooting, and then Jodie found out she was pregnant. Forest broke it to me - he'd gone to work and heard it on… — Dwight Yoakam
The characters in my novels are my own unrealized possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.… — Milan Kundera
Among those whose reputation is exhausted in a short time by its own luxuriance are the writers who take advantage of present incidents or characters… — Samuel Johnson

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